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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I doubt there's anything to stop UKTV taking VM to court for, what they believe to be, reasonable terms to carry their channels.
They could argue that the new proposed deal was so unreasonable so as to constitute effectively forcing them off the platform.
The same thing could have been said about Sky not being able to be forced to supply their basic channels to VM.
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It won't go to court. Virgin took Sky to court (did they agree a deal before it actually got to court?) due to Sky's dominant position in the market. The same can't be said of either VM or UKTV. Virgin can't be legally forced to buy UKTV's channels any more than UKTV can be legally forced to give them away for free.